Friday, January 31, 2014

In search of the truth – Part II

As per his duality theory of convenience, my learned
friend has used the % growth to add value to his comment.

But the fact is for the same given period of time 2008-2009
to 2011-2012 period,

F DI Inflow in USD millions

Gujarat

5358

Tamilnadu

5272

Andra
Predesh

4551

I am at a loss to understand how he projects Andra
Predesh over Gujarat.

In his earliest postings he has argued that the investments
made by Reliance in Gujarat has not added any value to the common man of
Gujarat, then I do not know how the FDIs made on any other states will add
value to the common man of that particular state.

At the same time, the p-sec intellects of the country blame
Modi for bringing FDIs at the same time praised the other chief ministers for
the same FDIs in their states, a good approach indeed.

Using his own statement, a student who has scored 40% can
improve his performance by 150% but a student who has scored 90% can only grow
maximum by 11.1%.

From 203, 373 crores in 2004-2005 Gujarat has grown to
398,884 crores in 2011-2012.

In the same time Bihar has grown from 77,781 crores to
246,995 crores.

No doubt it is an impressive growth, but still Bihar has
a long way to travel to catch up with other developed states. By sheer size Gujarat is 50% more than Bihar.

Also we need to understand that it becomes much tougher to retain your position once you grow beyond a point.

But what my learned friend has missed is how much % of
claim shall we give to BJP for the development of Bihar, as they were the major
coalition partners to Mr Nitish Kumar?

Or as usual, shall we give all credits to the new found
darling and put all blames on BJP? The choice is yours!

We should congratulate and motivate Bihar for a fine work
of growing, we can benchmark Bihar against Gujarat but is it fair to compare
the two ?

Look at the figures given by my frien on Industry,
Manufacturing and services and decide yourself.

Now the most important point of % of people below the
poverty line

% of population below poverty line

All
India

21.80%

Bihar

40.90%

Gujarat

12.50%

Tamilnadu

17.80%

Can we now declare Bihar has not achieved anything in
improving the standard of living of its people and comment that Tamilnadu lags
behind Gujarat in eradicating poverty?

Growth of Agriculture

All
India

3.69%

Bihar

16.09%

Gujarat

7.22%

Tamilnadu

4.11%

Using this data, shall we proclaim that Tamilnadu has not
cared for his agriculturists?

Sorry, I do not believe in jumping into such conclusions,
if we really care for the nation and its people, we should come forward to
meaningful discussions and not try to use our intellects to twist the facts and
figures.

May serenity prevails all over; let us try to understand
the big picture without any preconceived notions.

There have been hundreds of meaningful question my friend could have raised, but unfortunately he has not looked the data in a critical views. As a trainer, I think that now I should prepare a training program of " The Art of Questioning".

One think what surprises me is even people who claim themselves to be highly educated, never taken the pain of reading a post, understand and discuss it, rather they simply hit the like button, share it and praises the author.

Beware my friends, a community which can not think on his feel will time and again fell on the floor.

Let me thank my good friend, but for his postings I might
not have taken pain to search for the data and write such a long posting.

Thank you Narain !

PS : This may not be the end of the series, it all depends upon my friends's claims and counter claims.